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Reiza Studios have released another new Early Access build for highly rated racing simulator Automobilista.

As well as the usual fixes and improvements in todays update, two new and exciting pieces of content make their debut. The epic Copa Montana pickup trucks are finally here and the first layout of the new Mendig Flugplatz location arrive in game.

Already a hit with beta access players, the Copa Montana is a high powered performance racing Chevrolet flat back pickup truck that ran as support to the popular Brazilan Stock Car Series. Featuring an engaging driving experience and close fought racing action, the Copa Montana series car is a seriously enjoyable edition to Reiza Studio's Automobilista simulation.

Despite the new content available in build 0.9.6 other enhancements and new features are also available for players to enjoy. The new Virtual Xperience portal makes its debut in game as well as a fix for the common HUD display issue bug found in previous builds.
The full build changelog can be seen below:
Content:

Added Copa Montana Series

Added Mendig Flugplatz (first of many layouts still to come for this venue)

Can anyone provide technical information about the new car? Is it h shifted or sequential; that kind of staff. Are the cars running full race with pit stops or short sprints? What is the optimum Rev range for a shift? I've been looking online for some sort of a database that would have information on different series, but it's quite difficult to find info about more obscure racing series.

I love ams, so please don't take it as some reductive whining, but I was always dissapointed at how sports cars are released for sims with all the hard-to-find data and yet the devs don't bother to write a page of bullet points about the systems available in car, how they are modelled in game and the way real life competition is organised. Not a problem for something like f1, but when you deal with historic or niche racing series like this one, getting proper info can be difficult. It's annoying when you want to do a bit of 'role play' and organise a quick championship.

Here's the technical information such as I've been able to figure out. The Montana's are a manual sequential, so no need to lift up on upshifts, but should probably blip on downshifts to keep it stable. They ran 30-40 minute races as far as I can tell (not much good footage on Youtube) which means they're not pitting. The engine and chassis though I believe is very similar to the modern Brasiliero de Turismo or Stock Car Light.

Really, information on how any series is structured or the race format used isn't too hard to come by. Wikipedia often has a lot of base information such as field sizes and schedules and if the series is reasonably modern like the Copa Montana (2010-2012) there's likely to be enough footage on Youtube to make an educated guess.

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Really, information on how any series is structured or the race format used isn't too hard to come by. Wikipedia often has a lot of base information such as field sizes and schedules and if the series is reasonably modern like the Copa Montana (2010-2012) there's likely to be enough footage on Youtube to make an educated guess.

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Yes, but this is exactly the kind of information I hope makes it into the final release for the cups/series which Reiza has licensed or which need no license; a short blurb describing the engine, transmission, driving characteristics, and what type of races were held. Hopefully we won't have to resort to gleaning tidbits from old youtube clips.

SpeedyMite RacingStaffPremium

Pretty solid update: Copa Montana is great to drive and should provide close battles. I find its interior beautifully modeled and it has good sounds! Mendig Flugplatz brings an another type of track, an airfield: it is easy to get lost, not everybody will like it. But I find it makes a nice change! It is mainly a matter of sticking to it… Hotlapping is not my go to choice but after testing the leaderboard in the beta, I find it really well done and it brings a new game mode; I quite like it in fact… And there should be more features coming there as well!

This is key! All multiplayers should be happy. We did a quick test online yesterday evening, and it seems to have cure the main concerns: no need to "press 5 three times" at the start of the race! And it seems the HUD is not disappearing when people join or quit the server. That was a quick test, hope it will stay stable with bigger grids and sessions!
Then there are still some little things still buggy, like the Johannesburg track map … V1.0 is not there yet, wonder what number we will get in the following weeks: 0.9.6.9.1494+? But I keep faith in Reiza: they are really giving their best and listening to our feedbacks, I'm sure they will put it all together! I'm having so much fun with the game already! That's the main point after all…

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Very nice update Reiza, congratulations...
I noticed that the graphics became a lot more sharper which is in my book a top notch job.
The bugfixing is very much appreciated especially on my side the dynHUD fix.
And of course we have an ingame multiplayer room back again, yeahh...
Love the Copa Montanas and the new airfield track.
The best 29 bucks I ever invested in simracing
There is one thing though with the Copa Montanas. Could it be that the FFB multiplier has the wrong prefix?? Cause everytime I change car to the Copa Montanas I have to put the FFB multiplier to positive 100. Normally I have it on negative because of the Logitech G 25 I have.

I'm really happy with the work you guys have done so far and every update brings another big smile to my face! A big thumbs up and thank you for that!

But – and there will always be a but – I'm not the biggest fan of the new track limit violation system. Even if you're still tweaking that in places: Could you probably add an option to enable/disable it like R3E does? Especially when learning a track it takes some time to finally get a valid lap time which often is too much for impatient people like me ... As a compromise: What about displaying the lap time at least (in brackets for example) without putting it into classification?